Keith’s note: On 25 May @ScienceMagazine tweeted a link to an article in Science Robotics magazine about a NASA Europa mission concept. So did @SciRobotics. The tweets referred to an […]
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Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
The Europa Clipper Astrobiology Expedition Is Underway
Keith’s note: Payload separation and telemetry AOS for the Europa Clipper Astrobiology expedition confirmed. Europa Clipper has begun its travels across the inner solar system for gravity assists and then […]
Posted inCulture, Education, Exploration, News, Uncategorized
Dear NASA: Why Are We Going To Europa When Earth’s Oceans Are So Screwed up?
Keith’s note: Today’s “Obvious Question Begging An Answer Award” goes to Dennis Lees for his op ed “Earth’s ocean is in crisis. Why spend $5 billion to study the one […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
SLS Just Lost One Of Its Big Selling Points
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for the Europa Clipper Mission “NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for Earth’s first mission to […]
Posted inAstrobiology
Congress Uses Legal Snark To Ask NASA About SLS And Europa
Babin Requests Information on Europa Clipper Mission and SLS Use ” I’m expecting a prompt response from NASA answering our questions on their analyses of launch vehicles, as well as […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
Moon 2024 Goal Delays SLS Availability For Europa Clipper
NASA OIG Follow-up to May 2019 Audit of Europa Mission: Congressional Launch Vehicle Mandate, NASA OIG “NASA’s renewed focus on returning humans to the Moon on an accelerated timetable means […]
Posted inAstrobiology
OIG Report on NASA Europa Missions
NASA OIG Audit: Management Of NASA’s Europa Mission “Despite robust early-stage funding, a series of significant developmental and personnel resource challenges place the Clipper’s current mission cost estimates and planned […]
Posted inAstrobiology
NASA Replaces Europa Clipper's ICEMAG
NASA Seeks New Options for Science Instrument on Europa Clipper, NASA “The mission’s initial planned magnetometer, called Interior Characterization of Europa Using Magnetometry, or ICEMAG, will not fly with the […]
Posted inAstrobiology
Elections Can Have Consequences Billions Of Miles Away
Culberson’s ouster could spell big problems for NASA’s Orion program, experts say, Houston Chronicle “NASA programs — especially Orion, which is focused on putting humans back on the moon — […]
Posted inAstrobiology
Is Bad Science Better Than No Science? (Update)
Could November elections scramble a controversial U.S. mission to a frozen moon?, Science “Culberson’s lander has been somewhat controversial among scientists because it hasn’t gone through NASA’s traditional selection and […]